HIV and Community Health Workers: A Guide for Action - Softcover

Granich, Reuben; Merman, Jonathan; Mermin, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804733511 ISBN 13: 9780804733519

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1999

Synopsis

A comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide for health care workers worldwide, especially in areas with few medical resources. Designed as a manual for people confronting the HIV epidemic in their communities, no medical or technical knowledge or prior training in HIV prevention and care of people with AIDS is required. Topics range from the biology of the virus to designing successful prevention programs and writing grant proposals. Risk factors for infection are discussed explicitly and suggestions given of helpful methods for explaining them and assisting people to change their behavior. Extensive discussions of complex medical treatments not available to 95 percent of the people in the world who have HIV are avoided, focusing instead on medical interventions available in less industrialized settings. Illustrations highlight important topics and increase the accessibility of the text. An appendix aimed at readers with medical training discusses common AIDS-related illnesses and their treatment.

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Review

"This book is a comprehensive and well illustrated manual on HIV and AIDS. Many people working to develop effective community-based responses to the problems and suffering caused by HIV and AIDS will find useful information in this book. We thought the chapters on starting and funding an HIV project were especially helpful." -- Aryn Faur, The Hesperian Foundation

"This book is clear, concise, and accessible for the target audience. Its format and style is appealing, and I greatly commend it for making a difficult subject so easily digestible." -- Bunmi Makinwa, Communications Adviser, UNAIDS

"This book is easy to read and understandable. It provides useful data related to HIV/AIDS in a simple terminology. It will help the primary health care workers who work in the community as well as other medical personnel to further understanding to the general public." -- Dr.Khanchit Limpakarnjanarat, The HIV/AIDS Collaboration

"This excellent work will be of great importance as a guide and manual for primary health care workers as well as lay persons who may have an interest in or may be involved personally with HIV. It is a very readable text written with great clarity." -- B. D. Schoub, Director, National Institute for Virology, South Africa

"This wonderful, readable, beautifully illustrated book is a must for any community AIDS project. I cannot recommend it highly enough and I hope it is also translated into many languages." -- Abraham Verghese, author of My Own Country and The Tennis Partner

Edition details

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804733511
• ISBN 13: 9780804733519
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256